The USGS Healy, carrying 6 Lamont scientists and students, reached the North Pole on September 6.

09/19/01

Lost Alumnus Weibin Wang

It now seems certain that Lamont lost one of its alumni last week in the World Trade Center disaster. Weibin Wang graduated in 1994 and will be sadly missed. In these extraordinary times, we take the extraordinary step of providing a short message from the many good friends of Weibin and his wonderful family: weibin-english.pdf.

The Bush Administration's energy plan contains "thought-provoking ideas - both good and bad," said Roger Anderson, director of the Energy Research Center at the Earth Institute's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

Researchers working under the ice canopy in the Arctic Basin have confirmed that volcanoes and other tectonic processes often accompany seafloor spreading along the global mid-ocean ridge (MOR) system.